Anonymous
Post 06/02/2022 13:34     Subject: Re:Dickinson- full pay
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My DD liked Dickinson a lot, but even $20k off that tuition leaves a mighty big bill. She ended up declining and chose another school that appealed more, and gave heftier merit.


Oh, congrats! Do you mind mentioning which school or any others that your family considered? We're trying to put together a college list for our twins who like LACs in PA and the Midwest. Thanks!


Not the PP, but here are the PA/Midwest schools one of our twins considered:

Franklin and Marshall
Grinnell
Kalamazoo
Kenyon
Lafayette
Macalester
Oberlin

GL in your search!

Anonymous
Post 06/02/2022 13:29     Subject: Re:Dickinson- full pay
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We were full pay at Dickinson. Didn't fill out a FAFSA or apply for any aid anywhere. DC was offered some merit aid at a couple of schools anyway but not at Dickinson.


What a bizarre school to go to for full pay.


Not everyone is going to harvard. or emory. it is what it is.
Anonymous
Post 06/01/2022 22:40     Subject: Re:Dickinson- full pay
Anonymous wrote:My DD liked Dickinson a lot, but even $20k off that tuition leaves a mighty big bill. She ended up declining and chose another school that appealed more, and gave heftier merit.


Oh, congrats! Do you mind mentioning which school or any others that your family considered? We're trying to put together a college list for our twins who like LACs in PA and the Midwest. Thanks!
Anonymous
Post 06/01/2022 21:55     Subject: Re:Dickinson- full pay
Anonymous wrote:We were full pay at Dickinson. Didn't fill out a FAFSA or apply for any aid anywhere. DC was offered some merit aid at a couple of schools anyway but not at Dickinson.


What a bizarre school to go to for full pay.
Anonymous
Post 06/01/2022 21:42     Subject: Re:Dickinson- full pay
DC really liked Dickinson. Had to break it to DC that we'd have to cross off the list.
Even if DC got the biggest scholarship they have- it's still too hefty.
Plus, they require students to live on campus all 4 years so housing costs will not go down.
Anonymous
Post 06/01/2022 21:35     Subject: Re:Dickinson- full pay
We were full pay at Dickinson. Didn't fill out a FAFSA or apply for any aid anywhere. DC was offered some merit aid at a couple of schools anyway but not at Dickinson.
Anonymous
Post 06/01/2022 21:22     Subject: Re:Dickinson- full pay
My DD liked Dickinson a lot, but even $20k off that tuition leaves a mighty big bill. She ended up declining and chose another school that appealed more, and gave heftier merit.
Anonymous
Post 06/01/2022 18:46     Subject: Dickinson- full pay
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:On their common data set, it looked like 81 freshmen receive non-need (merit) aid, with an average award of over $20,000 per year. For all undergrads, 276 students receive an average of over $15,000 per year. So either they've just started being more generous, or they are most generous with freshmen.


That seems like a huge red flag


It’s not necessarily a big or significant discrepancy. 65 v 81? They can’t control how many kids offered big merit awards will accept. Maybe more accepted that year. But it might be worth asking around.
Anonymous
Post 06/01/2022 18:30     Subject: Dickinson- full pay
Anonymous wrote:On their common data set, it looked like 81 freshmen receive non-need (merit) aid, with an average award of over $20,000 per year. For all undergrads, 276 students receive an average of over $15,000 per year. So either they've just started being more generous, or they are most generous with freshmen.


That seems like a huge red flag
Anonymous
Post 06/01/2022 18:29     Subject: Re:Dickinson- full pay
OP here- thanks for the responses! We are early in this process and trying to make sense of the enormous variations in tuition amounts from school to school!
Anonymous
Post 06/01/2022 17:09     Subject: Re:Dickinson- full pay
Dickinson is a decent school but it’s not worth nearly 80k a year
Anonymous
Post 06/01/2022 17:08     Subject: Re:Dickinson- full pay
The cost is marked up sky high
Anonymous
Post 06/01/2022 17:06     Subject: Dickinson- full pay
On their common data set, it looked like 81 freshmen receive non-need (merit) aid, with an average award of over $20,000 per year. For all undergrads, 276 students receive an average of over $15,000 per year. So either they've just started being more generous, or they are most generous with freshmen.
Anonymous
Post 06/01/2022 16:27     Subject: Re:Dickinson- full pay
81% receive institutional grants or scholarships

https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=dickinson&s=all&id=212009#finaid
Anonymous
Post 06/01/2022 16:00     Subject: Dickinson- full pay
Does anyone pay the full cost to attend Dickinson or is it a case of marking up the cost to mark it down with merit aid? We won’t qualify for financial aid but $78k/yr is a lot!